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DLA Gulf partner in A&O comeback

'With attitudes such as these the region will only ever attract D grade talent.' That pretty much reads like an admission that all it's ever attracted to date is D (LA) grade talent.... Also the term Aussie Mafia is the one used internally within DLA Piper to describe them and refers not only to their place of orgin but to the manner in which they conduct themselves within the office. So I'm not sure why you think using that term makes the poster above inept, ill informed or ignorant. As for the 'many national projects such as Palm Jumeriah simply would not have been delivered without them' well that deserves all the attention that kind of excessive hyperbole should get. Palm Jumeriah was essentially 'completed' i.e handover of first residential units in 2006 i.e before DLA Piper even opened an office in Dubai and long before McNair and Co turned up. They were less important to the delivery of those projects as one of the guys in a blue boilersuit delivered to the construction site in a unairconditioned bus everyday. They just got paid a lot more and had nicer transportation.

3-Mar-2010

10:36 am